Session 1: Speech and Natural Language Efforts in the U. S. and Abroad

Mark Liberman, Patti Price

Abstract: We see two purposes for this first session: increased communications among research communities in some danger of drifting apart, and a comparison of alternative goals and organizational structures for such communities. Obviously, a single hour-long session is no more than a symbolic gesture in this direction, even ff the time had not been truncated further by schedule overruns pressing against an inflexible dinner hour, but we feel that the symbol was nevertheless a worthwhile and important one.